Dante, Mercy, and the Beauty of the Human Person

All lectures will take place in the auditorium of the Eck Visitors Center, Notre Dame, 6:00 - 8:30pm February 11, February 24, March 16, March 29, April 7

* For those unable to attend the lectures, they will be recorded and posted to the ICLYouTube page.

Comprising five evenings with two lectures featured back-to-back each time, this series convenes on February 11, February 24, March 16, March 29, and April 7. The series is designed to accompany the audience as they make their way through reading Dante's Divine Comedy during Lent and into Easter. Coinciding with the Year of Mercy, this series also responds to what Pope Francis said about Dante and his poem in relation to the 750th anniversary of the poet's birth: "[The Divine Comedy] is an invitation to rediscover the lost or obscured meaning of our human path and to hope to see again the glowing horizon on which the dignity of the human person shines in its fullness."

Academic Course: running alongside the lecture series, a 1.0 credit academic course is being offered to students. If you would still like to register for this course (THEO 30864 with the same name as this lecture series), please do so through InsideND or by contacting the instructor, Prof. Leonard DeLorenzo.

For further information, contact Brett Robinson, brobins6@nd.edu or 574.631.6109

Sponsored in part by: The Institute for Church Life's Notre Dame Character Project and the Office of Human Dignity & Life Initiatives; Campus Ministry; and by a grant from the Henkels Lecture Fund, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame